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About the Role
As the Senior Sous Chef, you will play a key leadership role in delivering exceptional culinary experiences while helping lead the day-to-day operations of our kitchen teams. This role is perfect for someone who thrives in a fast-paced hospitality environment and loves combining culinary creativity with operational leadership. You will partner closely with the Executive Chef to oversee restaurant dining, banquets, catering, room service, and special events while ensuring consistency, quality, efficiency, and exceptional guest experience across all culinary operations.
Responsibilities
- Support the Executive Chef in leading all day-to-day culinary and kitchen operations across restaurants, banquets, catering, room service, and special events.
- Supervise kitchen team members, providing coaching, training, scheduling, and hands-on leadership to ensure operational excellence and strong team performance.
- Ensure food quality, consistency, presentation, portioning, and service standards are maintained across all culinary outlets.
- Assist with menu development, seasonal offerings, banquet menus, and food innovation initiatives.
- Oversee food preparation, kitchen workflow, and line operations to ensure efficiency during high-volume service periods.
- Support inventory management, food ordering, receiving, and product quality control processes.
- Monitor food costs, labor costs, waste reduction, and kitchen productivity to support profitability goals.
- Ensure compliance with food safety regulations, sanitation standards, HACCP guidelines, and health department requirements.
- Partner closely with Banquets, Catering, Food & Beverage, and hotel leadership teams to execute meetings, weddings, conferences, and events, successfully.
- Help maintain a clean, safe, organized, and high-performing kitchen environment.
- Step into operational leadership responsibilities in the absence of the Executive Chef as needed.
- Support employee engagement, culinary training, development, and succession planning initiatives within the kitchen team.
- Perform any other duties as assigned.
Requirements
- 3+ years of culinary leadership experience in hotels, restaurants, resorts, banquets, or high-volume hospitality environments.
- Previous Sous Chef or Kitchen Leadership experience preferred.
- Strong knowledge of food preparation, banquet operations, catering, inventory management, and kitchen operations.
- Experience managing food quality, labor productivity, food costs, purchasing, and operational performance standards.
- Strong leadership and team development skills with the ability to motivate and support culinary teams in a fast-paced environment.
- Knowledge of food safety regulations, HACCP standards, sanitation practices, and health department compliance requirements.
- Ability to multitask, problem-solve, and remain calm under pressure during busy service periods.
- Excellent communication, organizational, and collaboration skills.
- Creative mindset with a passion for hospitality, food innovation, teamwork, and exceptional guest experiences.
- Flexible availability including evenings, weekends, and holidays as required in a hospitality environment.
- Must complete the full application in addition to submitting your resume.
Skills
- Culinary creativity
- Operational leadership
- Menu development
- Inventory management
- Food safety regulations
- HACCP
- Sanitation standards
- Team development
- Communication
- Organization
- Collaboration
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- Culinary degree or formal culinary training preferred
Salary/Compensations
- $85,000-$92,000
Benefits
- Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance
- Health Savings Account (HSA) with Company Match
- 401(k) Retirement Plan with Company Match
- Paid Vacation & Sick Time
- Paid Parental Leave
- Company-Paid Life Insurance
- Company-Paid Short-Term & Long-Term Disability
- Hospital Indemnity, Critical Illness & Accident Insurance
- Educational Assistance
- Sonesta Hotel Discounts
- Additional Perks & Employee Discounts
About the Company
- We’re Sonesta International Hotels—the 8th largest hotel company in the U.S. (and growing fast).
- With a dynamic mix of full-service and focused hotels across major cities, our diverse portfolio of owned, managed, and franchised properties means we’re everywhere our guests need us to be.
- We’re not just in the business of hotels, we’re in the business of people. We bring service with passion, loyalty with purpose, and create experiences that genuinely connect—delivering quality, value, and memorable stays across 1,000+ properties in eight countries (and counting).
Equal Opportunity
- Sonesta is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.